Children's Answers to Yes-No Questions: A Developmental Study in English, French, and Korean.

Choe, Soonja

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ERIC Number: EJ433377

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Publication Date: 1991

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Children's Answers to Yes-No Questions: A Developmental Study in English, French, and Korean.

Choe, Soonja

Developmental Psychology, v27 n3 p407-20 May 1991

Longitudinal and cross-sectional studies of young English-, French-, and Korean-speaking children showed that, across the three languages, children go through three similar developmental stages before they acquire the adult system of answering negative questions. Several language-specific phenomena were observed. (BC)

Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cross Cultural Studies, Foreign Countries, French, Korean, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Processing, Language Research, Longitudinal Studies, North American English, Psycholinguistics, Young Children

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: France; United States

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